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DISCUSSION ： 1. If you were the editor of a newspaper, would you put a lot of advertisements on your paper? 2. Which section of a newspaper do you like best? Why? 3. Do you like newspapers with or without pictures? Why? 4. Which would you prefer, reading a newspaper or watching TV? return

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1) Cover the table with a cloth. 2) Professor Li’s lecture covered several interesting subjects. 3) The floods covered large areas on both banks of the river. 4) 日落的时候，我们已经走了三十英里。 5) 她用双手捂住脸。 6) 他被派往新疆报道爆炸事件。 LANGUAGE STUDY 1. Reporters are then sent to cover the events.

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1) Let’s get down to a practical discussion. 2) Get down to some reading, or the other students will leave you behind. 3) After he returned from abroad, he got down to making films. 4) 他一回家就投入到家庭作业当中。 2. As soon as the reporters know what to write about, they get down to work.

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3. All the people who work on a newspaper must be able to work fast. 1) Every student should work on a study plan for the new term. 2) The scientists are still working on inventing new methods of reaching outer space. 3) 去年这个时候他正在创作一本新小说。 4 ）他花了几个小时草拟了一份报告。 return

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3. All the people who work on a newspaper must be able to work fast. 1) Every student should work on a study plan for the new term. 2) The scientists are still working on inventing new methods of reaching outer space. 3) 去年这个时候他正在创作一本新小说。 4 ）他花了几个小时草拟了一份报告。 return

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HOMEWORK: 1. Read the passage once again to make sure you have understood it quite well. 2. Finish the exercises in your workbook. 3. Make sentences using the expressions you learned in the text.(in your exercise books.)